The Sun. — London, England, 1818-02-27 00:00:00

EXAIHNA i lON OF THOMAS LINT BRICK, REF ORE THE ME,NillEits OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AT NEWCaTE. The day after the Sr atenteut ‘63 made before the Ga.l Committee in Newgate, relative to the . Blood-money Plot: 'c hontas Litninick was . called in and ezcainwed. :rite Following. is an accurate repot t. of the proceedings you know a wan of - the name of Finney • Yes. !low long have you known him ?—Three years. Has he been in I rouble i—Yes. How many times has he been in trouble ?-1 cimoot say how many times. 1 never liatl.tutich acspraititatice With him. io this place about 14 months ago ?—1 do not lecoileet thar. I have been very slightly autiaitimed %Hilt him, no further than seeing hint in . public-houses ,where* I have' been.. Whar did you consider him to be ?—He is a plastcrt r. Have volt ever known him in any other cha racter ?—I have known hint as a thief, Knd picking pockets. I never knew he had been passing notes, lie has nos worked ht his.bnsinessJor some time; the first time I became particrilarty acquainted with him was.four or six months, ago. There was a tnmit of the name of Bean, a constable and pa trole the Strand; lie was taking,a matt of the name of Arnifield, who he suppooed was going,,to break into some place ; Fb.ney was th . ere ; Arm field was"taken ; one Isaac Skilling, Bean said, a , tempted to stab him with a knife, but got away ; Pinney was taken.the same evening. Whether he was going along with them I can't say : I do not think he was.. lie was taken• to the watch-house for the row along with the girls, and I got him discharged, hived& of his having to 6nd bail ; and when hr came out I said, " you may as well tell me where Isaac Skilling is." He said, "If you meet nit' this evening, 1 will take you to a house where he is." We went ;he was not there. • We a.'ent rile next evening, and we took• him. He was charged with Finney and two girls be fore M. Mimic What Was yourTreasonlor interfering to get him discharged, and not the girls 1. IVliat were your motives for had no moti ves for it. Wit)/ did you speak to the. Magistrate,?---I did not. • You said yon dicl ?—To Bean. You said jn , t now yon, got hint discharge4l. You spoke to ?l r. Birnie, anti you gave sonte rea gons, of course. ‘Vhat did you ray got film discharged by sp. aking to Beau. skid you may well get him dischaiged,- as he has done no. thing. You must have had .friendship • for him y---No forthur than seeing hnvoceasionally. • ; you state any communication vitt 441 with Fi ntir y in the month of Nove m b er l a o . . .saw him the beginning of November . ; he came to me . and said, '' Ton►, I inow some people ho are passing had not, s. I said, "%Do y(iu ?"-- . He said " Yt's " He said, '' If you meet me . this evening, and bring another person nith - you, at a publie-hose, 1%1 .show them to you." I ...appoinie4 to (tire► 1 11:111 at the Northnutherland Aint-i,.Gi eat ItniselLstruet ; I met him at five tfeloCk t I had my hrother aitl► me ; h? 'lid he 13,1 d no seen them. He went awayand appointed the next evening ; he came the tiext evening, lend said he had not seen them ; the third and tour: evening he said the same thing. Af er this - I did nut see him for, I sho►►ld im.igine, it might be a week : then lie came to my house one mornine. ; was at liteakfast ; he had some breakfast with me . , and he said they were come to town.; and that, if I . met hint itt the evening, most probably we might see them. 1 met him again that even ing--no, I am tvili,ng‘ a story, he did not come that evening, and I did not see any more of him till lie cawe•to ►ne on the 26th 'of November.- 1 cannot say whether it was NoVember or October he came the first time. Ile then went away, and came to the offiCe, and said to Vertne, young man there, " Have you seen Lin►brick here ?" " Which of them ?" " Why," said he, Thomas I " Yes,'' said he, " he has been away about half an hour." lie said be wanted to see me very particularly; lie hail got a (kg• for nte. The yotin ! ,,, , man said; "I- dare say I can find him ;" and he came down to the White hart, in Vere-street, to a person of the Its toe of Hart, and said, "'loin, here's somebody wants you;" and then I Saw it was Finney. Finney called me on one side, and said, "'They ate going now to pass some notes, and I have heard them say, they are going to a grocer's shop at the corner of N'ewport-street, St. Martin's-lane; take another person with you and go directly ; you will see me coining, and I will point them out to you." 1 went to the office immediately, and seeing there •was nu one there, I went to the Bunch of Grapes, and took Smith with me. We had been down St. Martin's4ane about ten mi. flutes ; I wes walking, and saw them coming ; 1 knew them very well by sight Kelly anaSpieer were together; I saw Kelly leave Spicer at the corner (if Long-acre, and looking over to the'shop where Kelly went in, I saw that lie tendered a 'rote ; I could not see what is- was, but I saw • notes pass between them ; I crossed over to tell Smith ; he was in the way,. and Kelly came our lie cm ossed over directly and joined Spicec, and they walked together. !:'inney crossed over to me, and said,' " You may depend up.nt it they have smashed a note, and go and take them." l said, " We cannot take them in this dark place ;" and directly after, I saw something pass from Kelly's hand to Spicer's. Recollect yourself. Did yein not go over to Finney ?—No. 1 hen:Theao "Kelly.say,.‘,tome • a l ong , it is all rigl4-:;" fir•ivords - to that purport. They then iven4 - diiwn -i NleFcer-S . Cr ee t,'- ar i t i along Parsons -street, by the brewhouse, am) When they came Klng-street, 1 said, is • a good • light, tnind they' do not throw any thing away." I well( 'and took Kelly, and Smith took 'Spicer. I opened a shop-door, and pushed him in - .. ind - --searchedhitn, and found IBs , to his pocket. -- - The The paper cap he had on he polled off, And tocked . •-it into his•bp..“ , m, dud he had a white . apron on. Stwth, instead - earching Sricet•:,B'S he ought - 0 'have dt;trer, Kii:l.-:street with him, and as be went along he 1 , .•1t Hint futribling at lei: pocket, and thought he Was taking something out of it. .lier'pris4ed - himinta a butler-strop,. and there he searched him and found five 11, tiote4, which Mr. 13r.adley identified. There Were some women Stniih brought into • the'.oflice . t be next morning ; 'there were three of 'them taken into usrody tchey lived in 'St Gilei's) for having quantity ofnotes'about them, and upon making in glories, they had picked up a pocket-hook at th,f, door of this hurter-shop,, with, I think, se%wn five pound not,-s They had passed five.— They had _bokottt great:coats.and shoes, and other • - things besides.; and they acknowledged picking ,this book up ; and it appeared it was picked up when Smith caught Spicer,funibling at his pocket. The women were exainined. three or four, times, and committed to -the House of Correction ;. but Mt. We s' wood hail thew discparged. Two or three days after Kelly and Spicer were in custody, Finney came to my house in the morning, and asked, "is Lin brick at home ?" My wife said, ' 4 - Yes." She said to me, '' Here's,a young man wants you about some business, the young man who was with you be fore." I said "'Come id," He walled in, and staid and had breakfast ; and then he asked me, " Can I see my girl ?".• 1 for get, her name. He said she was pulled up last night for passing a note ,in Cranhouru-alley.— . " Why," says I, " you can't get an order with out going to Mr. Westwood at the Bank: You must have au order from him.'; He said, " uish you would go with me ;" ,and 1 went with Did you go in a chaise-cart with him ?—No, never, Did you walk down to Bank-bnildings 1I r. ‘Vestwood sAid he could not give an older Says " She will be examiiked ni-morrow a one o'clock., 41u1 if you come up wi , h Liinorick you tniiy -, ee her." And he appointed to see me Mien, and I have not seen hint since. Did you not know that there %vete strong suspi cions At that inotne ,, t that he was the person circu lating the notes ?—Never ; 1 charged him with that most particularly. Have not yonr brother officers given you that int ,, rmation?—No ; aey did not •know. who it was liett gave the information. You can recollect when Finney was intrMinced to . Mr, st wont!, %vile; her Mr. Westwood knew him ?--No. He t►n► not at Oa lime say,. " I know some 'hint: of Finney ?"—N o; of course, it he had, lie nw.dit have detained hilt,. flo , e much has Mr. Westwood given you ? He gave n►c 201. And Smith 101. Mr. Westwood " 1 should have given you 201. as well as 14,mbrick, hut the Bank think you are not en titled to it, ,as you did not do your duty as you tto have dune. There would have been a complete conviction if you had not allowed Spicer .timllLow the notes away which those women up." When I came out with Smii h, opened ate notes and said, " Smith, as he has .given y wily ten. I shall give Voa five more. _ What dirl you give to Finney ?—Nothing at all ; 11Q1 a tarthillg. After that I Wen to Mr. Wev ‘vonri.lud Westwood aiked " Litunriek, when sly!! j. ,u see that young wan, Finney ?" says he I bay- so,ne s:rong suspicion that he .bas been Dad ootes• hiruseft." • What time was this ?—Before Kelly and Spicer were tried ; they said be had been dabbling in then, ► t zi)od while ; he asked me whether I knew any thing of him ; 11." Said, No. We endeavomed to tiott Finney We %vent to Westmiuster directly, and intended to take him to Mr. Westwood the moment I caught him. Hove you any recollection about what time that was ; how , long before they were tried ?—lt was after they were committed ; they had three or four examinations. They were tried in the January Sessions ? Yes. Cannot you briog to your recollection the time Mr. Westwood hinted this to you ?---It might have been about the middle of December. 1 wish you would recollect youiselt more par tirularly.—l cannot. You do not think it *as later than that 2—l cannot charge my memory. Was it . within a fortnight after th ey were i n custody ?—About three weeks. Were you not about three weeks afterwards _ . with Finney at the Brown gear, and did you not sit wiih him the whole evening ?—I never have. I think .1 shall 'prove you were there with him three "reeks afterwards ?—No ; I was not. I have not been.with Finney since a morning or two after the women were taken.. You have been in a chaise-cart riding with Finney ?--Never in my life ; I never knew that he hid one, Ilave you never seen it ?--Na. You say you had a knowledge. of Kelly and Spicer ?-1 have seen Kelly's buy at the time . his father kept a public-hooe . where bad characters resorted.. Did. Finney pf.int them out to you in -Bow street ?—No, never. Finney used to come out to the Bunch of Grapes, and 1 have drank a glass Of ale once or twice with him ; hut that was long before 1 had any information respecting these men.. NVhat other reward are you expecting to re ceive, besides what the Bulk have . given . you None. Yon expect no conviction money ?—No; there s none. You do not expect- your expences ?—No. Has the prosecutor had his expellees ?—Yes. What has he had ?--Five pounds, so be said. I did not see any money paid. . . There is a warrant out for Finney now ?--Not . that I-know of. I did not know, till Harris told me this morning, that he was wanted. I said I - - - thought as Much, by Mr. NVestwood telling ute to bring him to.him as soon as he was caught,. Have you any knowlege where he is . at pre sent ?-1 have not. I think I should be able to token something of him. He may be down at Bri: He has been in the habit of going to Bristol. He told me that he came out of the co untry ; t h at he had been down to a job. I forget where it was. This was -before tw gave the the.infornia- !lan. - • Yoti'ilicl n ot -Itni4 lie was then passinv note s a t all ?—No. . .or .. ... You did not know that was the way in wLick lie got bis living ?—No, I never knew' any thing of him. Yon did not know he was always flush with nrotiey?-1 did not kIJOIA , enough of him to see him flush with money, any more than going into bottles where be was. When we want a thief we are in. the habit of going into places where we may .catch 20 or 30 sometimes, and sometimes not above five or six. Did iyon i !lisanise yofOseln—Yes. - 111 What way ?I . 'only put on a silk hendker chief; I had no time to change any more. I was standing at the bar drinking a glass of ale, and,' started on directly; and Finney went away, and ran to get Smith. I had scarcely been in St. Martin's-lane tea minutes when theytcame. Was any bargain made between you and Fin ney ?—No. What did you give him ?—Nothing. He borrowed a shilling: of me one morning. - How came it you did not give him any thing, when yon told Braidley that you thougl►t you were very. badly paid, as you had-to give. the in former something ?—Braidley tells a falsehood. He asked Inc . what I had ; I told him that they gave me 201. and Smith 101. and I said, the least I expected would have been 201. a-piece. ' I said, if we have, .as we usually bad, to give people something for giving us the informatiou, We should have very little. l said, when I see that man, I shall certainly give him something for giving the information, which we generally do, Braidley, said, he would give us a joint of meat 11 . -piece; and I told him we would call on Saturday for it. You told h .you had been paid for the prose cution, but that yt;►u bad been paid badly, because you had to 'ice the informer a considerable share out of it. You say, 'about a fortnight ago you. did go to Braidley, and you told hiniyott•bad to. give something to the person who had given . you the information. Was' that probable,. when you knew that this man was wanted for' passing bad notes ? . -1 slio+•tld not have given him arty money. You told Braidley so s a id it - was a' thing . we tisnally did for information, said you recollected Finney being in Tothill-fields prison, and that his mother had destroyed bet self ?—I never heard of that. You have known I►inm three years. During that time had lie been in the habit of giving you.in forn►ati,,n upon subjects of this sort?—\u, never ; only to tell me to take Shilling. Ile was stopped on suspicion at the same time Armfield was taken, who was a terrible desperate . .11-th fought dreadfully, and Bean cut him in the calf of his leg with his cutlas, and. Shilling , being up..with him, Imitte use of a bad expression,. and - Why do you not come up and fight ? Bean'said he attempted to.stab him, and I thought it my dot), to take him into custody ; I took him ; he. was exainined and_ discharged. I should think the money this man might have had .of me for that job -might 'be fitteen or sixteen shillings; but nothing tot this. Did you sec that night Finney and the boys to gether - when.you came rip i-1 saw them corning. up St .Mart i together. He told me to go there ► and h.e would point them out. YOU saw them corning up together in conver sation ?—I do not know whether they were in conversation. They were together; Finney cross ed over and spoke to tue: They were then walking and coming tip toge ther ?—Yes. • You know Emma Connor, who , was convicted with her sister for passing a forged note in Cran bourn-alley do not know her by sight. I did not see her when she was in custody. You know that Finney awl she were connected, and you must have supposed that she was passing notes as receiving them from him took him with that view to Mr. Wes.twoocrs, to get an or der to see the woman. You know very well when a woman is passing notes and living with a man, the person she lives with is the person who assists in obtaining those notes ?—Lle said she Was taken with Kelly's girl, that is all he told me. I passed the girl this morning in Drury-lane we..were looking for her. H as s h e be e n char g ed with tittering ?—No. You must naturally draw your conclusion, that Finney, being the person who kept her, was the person who supplied her with those notes did, not strike the at the time. He has absconded. . Did you never see Finney and' the two boys to gether till that night ?—Never. I had never seen le lads before that night. It is very singular,' . When - they were mixing to gether for so many Months, and going about with a cart, all of which - most have come under your eyes, that you should not have noticed it I—l did nut know it. fattier came to me and said, " Finney sold toy boy like .a bullock. It was Charley Finney that gave me the informa tion." I said it was not .;• for I could not satisfy such a man as h►im. I had never seen the lather to speak to him befa,re that.. • Is Smith. here • How manrtimes have you been paid by Nit. West wood 'money for proSeortiOni of this sort ? Never:bufonce before; - Ow ivai when a man was brought out of the country. Me, and Adkins, and another officer, searched him ; Mr. West wood admitted )rim "as an evidence, lie Saying he would give,up the persons who made them ; upon that Westwood gave him some, money, and Adkins and me :went with him, my being so well known about Golden-lane. We had a man of the name of Turner; we took him, and said, mind this man does not get away. We stood behind; but, how ever, this man met with another in a public house ; they, bad something, to drink :" the man who was in custody went, in at one door and out at another ; Turner pursued him, but instead of catching the prisoner, :he caught bold of his friend. Were you rewarded for that job ?—I made out and Mr. Westwood allowed me 5/. , -You never had any reward for Bank tokens from the Bank No, never. - I have had money from the Mint. I bad one conviction here, of a man who.. had been found guilty, death, before, for tattling_ bad money. Have von sOmething to do here now ?--;.Nro. Wein f - flint Finney was at Brlstoi, h ave SteptrlU take him 1-1 se id, I knew itt gOiug to Br awl j I have 4 . ,1; y ` €,! : f . 4.,i!er lti n. playa Iff4a MAMA' key sights by WL b you could find have watched the place. at West , minster.wher . e he lived; and been over the water to people where he used to be most intiwate, and 1 cannot hear any thing of him at all. lam -eer 6 tain he is well aware he would be rake:, into cite. iody if he was caught. It I was iu the habit of being in the country I mighv . meet with bin. You said.npan the trlal, there was nobody pita sent when ypu took Kelly and Spicer at all; and oti saw. no person WhateFer i--There !was no person when we.saw sornek..ing pass. . . Phi you not swear that you had receivechto in , formation from any pers,n %vhatevr did not. The question was askol you whether you had ? —4 ;aid I had suspicioU horn info : minion I, dud received, Limbrick has been suspended. . - Alderman Wood presided as Magistrate upon the occasion. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEB. tiq. London Sittings mitt,. Hilary Term, bejlire Lord Ellenkorome4. THE EXECUTORS OF ZHIFNELL V. THotPatiTotc This was an action for work and labour, brought by the Executors of a Testator, to re- ; cover certain wage s a ll ege d to b e due to him From d the defendant. Mr: ScARLETT opened the case for the plaintiffs, and stated that the Testator itad' formerly been the confidential butler and own man of a gentleman named Kempenfeldt, who always insisted upon Shiffnell's wearing a livery,ahhough fir•t servant of his household. Mr. Kernpenfehlt died, bequeati! jug to it is hurler two legacies, one of 5001. and the other of 3001. ; and he also bequeathed him, on accunnt of his faithful services, double the amount of all 'the wages which he had received of 221. per annum, (hiring a long course of sOivitude, int, by his last. will and tastamenr he recommended hat the defendant, who was hil§ executor and'residuary legatee ; should retain his old servant in his service, but with the express proviso that - he should no longer wear a livery. When the defendant took possession of his testator's estates, he found Skil nell in possession, and promo , e‘t him to the .itua- Lion of superintendent, Or gene ral steward of the property, in which situation to- died. nev er having . (as was alleged) received aoy wages from the de-. tendant. After the,plaintiff's case was opened. Mr. GURNEY,, as Counsel for the detendaot s said he was disposed to admit that there waS something due to the plaiontis ; and as the only question between the panics teas as to the amount, he had no objection to tele!' the matter to the arbitration of a Gentleman of the Bar. • This offei . was accerri.d, and a verdict was taken for the plaintiffs for 6001 subject to a reference. HOP INTi.,I,LIGENCE. SOUTHWARK, FEB. 23 —Our Hop Trade con tinues as dul; as ewe , the Isoldeis art. offer ing at 10s. to 20s, 1.-1 .• I. lower prices than tliey were a tortnikla since. We are auCloriz- zo s tate, that since the Me. dicta Board haS 1,• en established ~at f hari , t* 7 - House, Great CV tiotte street, apposite Lb.sitetr.. Rowland Hill'F Chapri, and Woodstock-stren, adjoining New Bond-street, upwards of Thirty Thousand Patients of both sexes have b?en re stored, to perfect health, , many of whom. had lingered for years under the moat painful and ob stinate diseases, Were pronounced incurable . by respectable practitioners, and several discharged from Hospitals--. Such is the effects resulting trona combined talents ! Alessrs. COOPER and Co. 'of Medical and. Sur.. gical celebrity, after forty gears experience in this Metropolis, are consulted daily at 'both .Itouses until nine at night, and the poOr have adVice, gratis, on Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday Morn ings, until twelve. o'clock. Patients at a distance, describing their case, immediately attended t0.,-- 7 All letters to be direct ed to Charlotte House, Black friars-road, but none are answered .which do nut contain a consult ing fee • SHOCKING MURDER.—On the evening of Mon.. day or Tuesday last, a most inhoman murder was committed on the person of Elizabeth Low, a widow about 75 years, of out!, residine in the centre of the very populous village of Dunning. It would appear, by the marks of violence -which she exhibited on her body, that the monster by whom this diabolical- deed was perpetrated „had effected his bloody purpoe by a single blow with an axe, 'so as to fracture co►npletely the shrill. The murderer seems to have afterwards .proceeded very - deliberately to_roh the house, as lovery'moveable article which it contained was carried off. The circumstances of this ease are so atrocious; andl so unusual in this part of the kingdom, that ever? exertion should betuade by the' inhabitant] 01 the neighbourhood, ill aid'of the Officers, of Justice, to discover the villain who could be ,guilty of stick a complicated act " ,, f r - ickedness.—(Caledo4ilts. Mercury.) . . Wednesday last, the of I Iter.Charks Parr 13urnrty, Croonfs-bill, Grecnwie., of a daughter. DIED. On the 20th instant, Helel], daughter of John Hine, Esq. of Dartmouth. On Tuesday evening, Mr. .19.1 in Orlton, iu the 78th year of his age. • On the 23d instant, after a few days' illness, • at Cliath Barracks, aged 21, Mr. John Ferriar Nichol, only son-of the late Rev. John Nichol, Minister of the parish of Warnford, Northumberland. On the 25th instant, at Hampstead, Mrs. Key, widow of the late Jonathan Kcy-, Esq. , On board the H on . C ompany ' s s hi p t h e Th omas Grenville, on her passar , . fro,:i the Cape to Calctitta, Joseph, second son of E..ionu Catlett, Esq. M. P. Southwark.. On Wednesday last, at Pentonrille; of a consumption,- in the 33d year of her age, Mrs. Jane Jones, wife of Mr. Samuel Jones, of Barnard's lon, Holborn, 'attorney at Law, and se cond daughter of Anthony , Parkin; Esq. •Ot• Great Ormond street, Solicitor to the Post Office. On Wednesday, the 25th instant, Mrs. Adamson, at the. house of her son, Captain William Adamson, of the Honour able East India Company's Service, Greenwich-road. ' LONDON i Printed liyJ. B. CARSTAIRS, of No. 29, Greet Ormond-street, Quten-siitiare; -and published by W. A. SCRIPPS, of No. 7, South Molton-street, at Tue Sum Othce, No. 112, Strand ; where Adreiriseutepts, Otdcis, ',Mors,- &e. ( l pust-744 ). must bo addromd.